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This book shows parents how to teach their children relational and personal management skills they will need to be good marriage partners, including personal responsibility, decision making, communication, and money management.
List of contents
CONTENTS
Introduction
Part 1: Parenting for Tomorrow
1. The Learner’s Permit
2. Children Are Growing Up to Be Children
3. Sink or Swim?
4. The Three Arenas of Life
Part 2: Raising an Employable Child
5. The ICE Plan
6. Avoid Irresponsibility and Excuses
7. First and Last
8. Could Your Child Answer the Call?
Part 3: Raising a Marriageable Child
9. Preparing for a Partner
10. Practice Makes Prepared
11. They’re Watching
12. Purposeful Communication
13. Prepare Them to Handle Money or Money Will Handle Them
14. Sex Is Not a Four-Letter Word
Part 4: Teaching the Decision-Making Template
15. Raise the Standard
16. Teach the Standard
17. Conflict or Concert
18. Most Likely to Succeed
About the author
Dr. Robert and Rosemary Barnes are conference speakers and coauthors of Rock-Solid Marriage and We Need to Talk. Dr. Robert Barnes is executive director of Sheridan House Family Ministries, the author of several books, host of the weekly "Family Time Radio" program, and writer of a newspaper column on family issues. Rosemary Barnes is a frequent national conference speaker with Robert on marriage and family issues.
Summary
This book shows parents how to teach their children relational and personal management skills they will need to be good marriage partners, including personal responsibility, decision making, communication, and money management.
